Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications

Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications

Ganesh Chandra Deka, Sambit Bakshi

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 530

ISBN13: 9781466665590|ISBN10: 1466665599|EISBN13: 9781466665606

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6559-0

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Cloud technologies have revolutionized the way we store information and perform various computing tasks. With the rise of this new technology, the ability to secure information stored on the cloud becomes a concern.

The Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications explores the latest innovations in promoting cloud security through human authentication techniques. Exploring methods of access by identification, including the analysis of facial features, fingerprints, DNA, dental characteristics, and voice patterns, this publication is designed especially for IT professionals, academicians, and upper-level students seeking current research surrounding cloud security.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics (AISPE) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Introduction

Chapters

Chapter 1

Biometric Authentication for the Cloud Computing (pages 1-15)

Sumit Jaiswal, Santosh Kumar, Subhash Chandra Patel, R. S. Singh, S. K. Singh

As the data being stored to a distant server away from direct control of user cloud presents various security risks and threat issues associated with the user authentication and access control mechanisms, it is of upmost importance...

Chapter 2

Recent Trends in Cloud Computing Security Issues and Their Mitigation (pages 16-46)

G. M. Siddesh, K. G. Srinivasa, L. Tejaswini

Security in cloud is to be increased to strengthen the confidence and trust of cloud service consumers. In the upcoming years, the scientific research and education teams will have to investigate finding new ways to handle the issue...

Chapter 3

Security Architecture for Cloud Computing (pages 47-71)

Robin Singh Bhadoria

Clouds need to address three security issues: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Security architecture for cloud computing is designed based on the functional architecture. The approach is to enhance the components of a...

Chapter 4

Big Data Computing Strategies (pages 72-90)

Malavika Jayanand, M. Anil Kumar, K. G. Srinivasa, G. M. Siddesh

In order to store these huge bulks of data, organizations have to buy servers and scale it according to their need. One of the solution for storage would be Cloud Environment as there is no need to scale up storage by aggregating...

Chapter 5

Verifiable Response in Heterogeneous Cloud Storage: An Efficient KDC Scheme (pages 91-108)

Abdul Wahid, Mohatesham Pasha Quadri, Ahmad Talha Siddiqui, Mudasir M. Kirmani, Khaleel Ahmad

A Distributed Cloud Storage Provider (DCSP) is used for managing the client's data. However, the platform is vulnerable to security attacks, which results in huge losses of client data. The confidential data in an enterprise...

Chapter 6

NoSQL Databases (pages 109-152)

Mainak Adhikari, Sukhendu Kar

NoSQL database provides a mechanism for storage and access of data across multiple storage clusters. NoSQL dabases are finding significant and growing industry to meet the huge data storage requirements of Big data, real time...

Chapter 7

Cloud Database Security Issues and Challenges (pages 153-173)

Ganesh Chandra Deka

To get the desired benefits for the IT enterprise, NoSQL databases must be combined with proven and reliable SQL features into a single proven infrastructure meeting the manageability and security requirements of cloud computing....

Chapter 8

BDS: Browser Dependent XSS Sanitizer (pages 174-191)

Shashank Gupta, B. B. Gupta

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack is a vulnerability on the client-side browser that is caused by the improper sanitization of the user input embedded in the Web pages. Researchers in the past had proposed various types of defensive...

Chapter 9

Analyzing the Security Susceptibilities of Biometrics Integrated with Cloud Computing (pages 192-208)

John R. Regola, John K. Mitchell III, Brandon R. Baez, Syed S. Rizvi

In the present scenario, the vulnerabilities associated with cloud computing and biometric technology rank among the most vital issues in information security. In this chapter, the primary goal is to investigate the physical and...

Chapter 10

Biometric Authentication for Cloud Computing (pages 209-235)

Tarunpreet Bhatia, A. K. Verma

Cloud computing is a way of providing unlimited storage capacity and enhancing parallel processing capabilities without investing in new infrastructure or licensing new software. Designing a secure data access for cloud computing...

Chapter 11

Cloud Security: Implementing Biometrics to Help Secure the Cloud (pages 236-250)

Natasha Csicsmann, Victoria McIntyre, Patrick Shea, Syed S. Rizvi

Strong authentication and encryption schemes help cloud stakeholders in performing the robust and accurate cloud auditing of a potential service provider. All security-related issues and challenges, therefore, need to be addressed...

Chapter 12

Biometric: Authentication and Service to Cloud (pages 251-268)

Ajay Rawat, Shivani Gambhir

Cloud computing lacks control over physical and logical aspects of the system, which imposes profound changes in security and privacy procedure; hence, it needs a high level of security. Currently, many researchers and developments...

Chapter 13

Biometrics in Cloud Computing (pages 269-297)

Mainak Adhikari

Biometric-based authentication is automatic identity verification, based on individual physiological or behavioural characteristics, such as fingerprints, voice, face, iris, etc. Over the next few years, the amount of biological data...

Chapter 14

Cloud Security Using Face Recognition (pages 298-319)

Santosh Kumar, Debanjan Sadhya, Durgesh Singh, S. K. Singh

Establishing identity has become very difficult in the vastly crowded cloud computing environment. The need for a trustworthy cloud authentication phenomenon has increased in the wake of heightened concerns about authentication and...

Chapter 15

Trusted Cloud- and Femtocell-Based Biometric Authentication for Mobile Networks (pages 320-336)

Debashis De, Anwesha Mukherjee, Srimoyee Bhattacherjee, Payel Gupta

Authentication procedures are conducted in order to control and stop illegitimate access of such valuable data. This chapter discusses the biometric authentication inside the cloud. The authors describe how biometric information of a...

Chapter 16

ECG-Based Biometrics (pages 337-363)

Swanirbhar Majumder, Saurabh Pal

Like all human beings have different fingerprints, they have differently shaped hearts. The ECG, or the electrocardiogram, is the signature of the movements by the human heart, and thus, all ECGs are different. ECG biometrics is an...

Chapter 17

Privacy Preserving Text Analytics: Research Challenges and Strategies in Name Analysis (pages 364-385)

Suresh Veluru, Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, B. B. Gupta, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

An e-mail address is a source of communication for major social networking sites. In general, e-mail addresses hold identity in the form a surname as a substring in it. Identities such as names are far from random and can exhibit...

Chapter 18

Intrusion Detection and Prevention on Flow of Big Data Using Bacterial Foraging (pages 386-411)

Khaleel Ahmad, Gaurav Kumar, Abdul Wahid, Mudasir M. Kirmani

Rapid connectivity and exchange of information across the globe with extension of computer networks during the past decade has led to security threats in network communication and has become a critical concern for network management....

Chapter 19

An Outline of Threats and Sensor Cloud Infrastructure in Wireless Sensor Network (pages 412-432)

Bhavana Butani, Piyush Kumar Shukla, Sanjay Silakari

Wireless sensor networks are utilized in vital situations like military and commercial applications, traffic surveillance, habitat monitoring, and many other applications. WSNs have to face various issues and challenges in terms of...

Chapter 20

An Evolutionary Approach for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing (pages 433-463)

Subashis Mohapatra, Banshidhar Majhi

Cloud computing has many issues related to privacy, security, scalability, elasticity, and efficiency. Load balancing is one of the vexing issues in cloud computing. Load balancing ensures that all processors in the system have...

Chapter 21

A Practical Approach on Virtual Machine Live Migration (pages 464-483)

Prashanta Kumar Das

Virtualization technology enables organizations to take the benefit of different services, operating systems, and software without increasing their IT infrastructure liabilities. Live migration of virtual machine is the key features...

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